NEWCASTLE — Five-hundred people attended the Newcastle May Day march this year. This was a bigger turnout than in recent years, largely because of a big contingent of people protesting against the NSW Labor government's plans to close down the Newcastle rail corridor.

At its April 7 meeting, the Newcastle Trades Hall Council voted for a motion moved by secretary Gary Kennedy supporting the government's decision to cut the Newcastle rail line and replace the service with buses. In response, the Newcastle-Maitland-based Save Our Rail collective mobilised a large and vocal May Day contingent.

Zane Alcorn

From Green Left Weekly, May 25, 2005.
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